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• I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.

  Geri Halliwell

  Dating, Starters, Fronts

  "Geri Halliwell talks turning 40 and looking for love". HELLO! Magazine Interview, www.hellomagazine.com. August 20, 2012.

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• The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

  Thomas Hardy

  Time, Jobs, Men

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.8199, Delphi Classics

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• I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Home, Sleep, Nightlife

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• We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

  George Harrison

  Wall, Space, Talking

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• I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.

  Ethan Hawke

  Sleep, Kids, House

  "Ethan Hawke talks Daybreakers!". www.geekscape.net. January 06, 2010.

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• I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

  Salma Hayek

  Birthday, Believe, Age

  "Salma Hayek Pinault Opens Up About Marriage and Motherhood". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You'll be mad, but it will be too late.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Lakes

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• I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'

  Christopher Hitchens

  Class, People, Missing

  "Look who's talking". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2002.

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• There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Hippie, Rights, Years

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• So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

  Lee Iacocca

  Moving On, Procrastination, Long

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• A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

  Kim Jong Il

  Fear, Struggle, Mean

  Chŏng-il Kim, Jong Il Kim (1989). “The Present Times and the Tasks Facing Young People: Talk to the Senior Officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, October 12, 1988”

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• I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them.

  Derek Jeter

  Games, Teammate, Pressure

  "How to make Jeter miss". Interview With Rick Reilly, www.espn.co.uk. September 20, 2012.

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• Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

  Penn Jillette

  Magic, Disrespectful, Modern

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.

  James Earl Jones

  Running, Night, Actors

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• My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

  Michael Jordan

  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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• I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in Marxism and the French Left in 1978. Conversely, my first non-academic publication, a review in the 'TLS', did not come until the late 1980s, and it was not until 1993 that I published my first piece in the 'New York Review.'

  Tony Judt

  New York, Book, Pieces

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• No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.

  Michio Kaku

  Brain, Robots, Century

  "Space elevators and smart machines: Life in the year 2100" by Michio Kaku, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2011.

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• I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.

  Mindy Kaling

  Kids, Night, Doctors

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Growing Up, Tv Shows, America

  "Check Out Mindy Kaling As Marge Simpson!". www.glamour.com. September 17, 2012.

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• I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

  Elia Kazan

  Party, Years, Half

  "A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and 'Naming Names'" by Elia Kazan, www.capitalismmagazine.com. April 19, 1999.

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• When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

  Bil Keane

  Teacher, School, Drawing

  "Comics: Meet the Artist" online cha, www.washingtonpost.com. July 31, 2002.

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• I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on 'Game of Thrones.' Weirdly, it wasn't until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.

  Anna Kendrick

  Queens, Games, White

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• A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.

  Jason Kidd

  Motivational, Basketball, Morning

  FaceBook post by Jason Kidd from Dec 01, 2011

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• There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

  Charles Kingsley

  Kindness, Reality, Generosity

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